Take a look at what you've done to public education

Nowhere is there a finer showcase for the depths to which public education has fallen than the Granville-Schools/Newark-Schools/Kraner-development argument about profits.

Money drives it. Who profits by how much is the point at issue.

There was a time - and I was fortunate enough to be a student back then - when teachers taught because they didn't mind being underpaid since they believed in the nobility of their mission. School administrators were judged on how well they could pinch pennies, not on the skill with which they milk taxpayers.

That today's schools would deal in students as though they are cattle going to market - as though they have price stickers attached to them - is simply incredible.

Educators - teachers, administrators, boards of education, state bureaucrats, legislators, college presidents and boards of trustees - should step back and observe the depths to which they've drug public education by focusing on its profitability.

Take a good look, and be ashamed.